Some instructors at USask are looking for OER for the Landscape Design course. I have
found these and sent them on to them, but I'm wondering if there is anything that
might meet their needs (see below).
https://collection.bccampus.ca/textbooks/red-seal-landscape-horticulturist-…
https://open.lib.umn.edu/nativegrasses/
https://openpress.usask.ca/soilscience/ (this one was a cross-Canada partnership that Fran
Walley led.
They're looking for materials that cover:
Design styles, elements, and techniques
- History of landscape design
- Indigenous, English, German, and Japanese styles
- Hard scaping, construction, working containers with turfgrass
- Communication and working with clients
Landscape design principles and concepts
- Humans in the natural and urban worlds
- Urban environments and urban planning
- Future cities and urban communities
- The landscape design process
Plants in the landscape
- Landscape and site analysis, drafting programs
- Plant selection, hardiness, climate, water, soils, color, and light
- Edible, perennial, and annual landscapes; stock standards, pruning
- Botanical gardens and prairie gardens
Environmental philosophy, landscape ecology and sustainability
- Concept of nature; the connection between nature and humankind
- Sustainable development goals and urban horticulture
- Ecological functioning of landscapes, and landscape restoration
- Soil-plant-air-water continuum
Thank you.
Heather M. Ross, BA BEd MEd
Educational Development Specialist
University of Saskatchewan
Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching and Learning
Ph: 306-966-5327<tel:306-966-5327>
Find open textbooks and other open educational resources on:
http://open.usask.ca<http://open.usask.ca/>